Lost Horizon (1937)
Directed by Frank Capra
British diplomat Robert Conway and a small group of civilians crash-land in the Himalayas, where they are rescued by the inhabitants of the hidden, idyllic valley of Shangri-La. Protected by the mountains from the world outside, where the clouds of World War II are gathering, Shangri-La provides a seductive escape for the world-weary Conway.
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When Buddy’s grandma lowers her guard and waxes poetic about seeing Frank Capra’s “Lost Horizon” many years ago, she talks about Shangri-La as if it were a place she longs to return to.
Unfortunately, Cameron�s imperial prowess is at the service of his eco-mystic side, which has mushroomed quite a bit since The Abyss -- the Na�vi are an amalgam of noble-savage clich�s, Lost Horizon rejects who gallop like Sioux across the Great Plains and do faux-Polynesian seated dances around the sacred "Tree of Souls."
The fun of taking in stories about imaginary societies, whether its Lost Horizon or 1984 , lies in the detailing given to the fictional worlds values and customs, and what they reflect about our own reality.
Walking out of “Midsommar” after watching it, I confess that I kind of hated it—I described it to some people as being like the “Lost Horizon” remake with [i]slightly[/i] better music.
While the grad student played by Harper pursues his thesis, Christian decides he, too, wants to write about the strange customs particular to the village of their mutual friend Pelle, which is more like a commune, or the Nordic offspring of the mountainfolk in the 1973 musical version of “Lost Horizon.”